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When "Money Talks" = The Failure Spiral

Various Australian governments, by allowing money to talk so loudly, have put themselves into a spiral where this same pattern is repeated over and over. And each time the pattern is repeated, the cost of fixing it becomes higher and higher. Also each time, it is our values, our lives and the futures we are trying to create that are diminished.

Blogs, Corporate Growing Pains, Environmental analysis, Geoff's Blog, Issues and crisis, Leadership, Risk Management, StrategyGeoff Barbaro30 June 2011corporate growing pains, leadership, people, radical management, Steve Denning, strategy, success barriers, values

Scenarios - A thinking and planning tool

Many organisations have failed to see scenario planning as a wonderful method for strategy thinking and planning, yet experience demonstrates that scenario planning produces innovative, practical, inspirational plans that focus on delighting customers and clients.

Stop the crisis - Monitor the external environment

In these cases and many others, we are talking about companies with immense experience and excellent reputations. They are managed well and would have crisis and risk management plans. Yet in each case, the consequences exceeded anything they planned for.

Blogs, Corporate Growing Pains, Environmental analysis, Geoff's Blog, Issues and crisis, Risk ManagementGeoff Barbaro15 December 2010communications, complexity, corporate growing pains, media, reputationComment